Paving the Road to IT Hell
As a school technologist and IT guy, I am continually reminded of the gap between theory and practice, between what computer users should be doing and what they do do. Indeed, St. Paul could have been...
View ArticleThings That Sound Like Tech Problems But Aren’t
…holding the IT responsible for misuse of technology is like trying to hold English teachers responsible for teaching the skills that enable someone to write a nasty letter, or the paper companies for...
View ArticleSpeculations: School Book Stores
Are the days of the K-12 student book store numbered? In a word: Yep!
View ArticleKnow IT Alls: The Threat
Imagine that there's someone you know, someone you see perhaps every day, someone you pass in the hallway, perhaps even have lunch with, who has access to secret information about you. This information...
View ArticleKnow-IT-Alls: A Code of Ethics for School IT Professionals
I was able to find numerous codes for IT professionals, and several for educators, but nothing that combines the two. This post is a step towards remedying that.
View ArticleLeft to Their Own Devices
To hear some IT managers talk, you would think that their users, their constituents, their customers if you will can't be trusted to even change the lead in s mechanical pencil, let alone take...
View ArticleValues Clarification and Digital Citizenship
his post is adapted from an article I originally wrote in 1985 entitled "Computers, Kids and Values" for The Computing Teacher (Volume 12, Number 1), the predecessor of ISTE's Learning and Leading with...
View ArticleData Retention
What records should a school (and its individual employees) retain? For how long? What should you toss out? How do you decide? How do balance risk and convenience?
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